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Your New Ride May Be Exposing You To A Cocktail Of Toxic Gases! How? by CastroLubeNg: 9:40am On Jun 13, 2016
Do you Know....Your new ride may be exposing you to a cocktail of toxic gases.
Love that new car smell? That smell — so popular it's a trendy scent option at the carwash — is actually the offgassing of chemicals that can pose an assortment of health problems for automobile occupants, some of them are quite serious.

The toxic cocktail in automobiles comes from solvents, adhesives, lubricants, flame retardants, plastics, and other materials. Many of these chemicals are volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which may cause headaches, throat and eye irritation, allergies, confusion, and drowsiness. Great Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper once equated the immediate effects of inhaling new-car cabin fumes to “sniffing glue.”

Regular exposure to significant levels of these toxins can pose other risks over the long term, including learning and memory impairment, birth defects, decreased fertility, and problems with the liver, thyroid, ovaries, kidneys, and blood. Benzene is a well-known human carcinogen and formaldehyde has been classified as a probable human carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency.

When car components are redesigned, it can further complicate the picture, according to Carolyn Cairns, an independent expert in product safety and risk assessment. "Many new materials are formulated with chemicals for which little or no testing has been done to establish toxicity. In many cases, analytical test methods have not been developed to detect them in vehicle air samples at levels that may be harmful."

When a car is freshly manufactured, many construction materials are still unstable and continue to offgas, particularly when the vehicle interior becomes hot. Fortunately, the offgassing lessens as a vehicle ages, dropping significantly within the first several months.

But once the offgassing period of a new vehicle ends, some of these chemicals may persist. At the end of a car's life cycle, the shredded plastic and other non-metallic parts that are discarded in our landfills or incinerated can pose health risks to the general environment. Landfill waste can leach out and contaminate soil and water, and when incinerated, some toxic compounds found in automobiles can be dispersed throughout the atmosphere.
http://www.alternet.org/new-car-smell-killing-you?platform=hootsuite

Re: Your New Ride May Be Exposing You To A Cocktail Of Toxic Gases! How? by steveyen(m): 11:04pm On Jun 26, 2016
Pls do you have 10w/40 part synthetic Castrol Magnatec . 1 litre? And if yes how much? Just need to top up my engine.

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Re: Your New Ride May Be Exposing You To A Cocktail Of Toxic Gases! How? by CastroLubeNg: 11:01am On Jul 13, 2016
Hello Stephen, Trust youi are doing great. Sorry this is coming now. Yes we have 10W-40 in 5Litres which costs 6900Naira only per keg, see attached
steveyen:
Pls do you have 10w/40 part synthetic Castrol Magnatec . 1 litre? And if yes how much? Just need to top up my engine.
steveyen:
Pls do you have 10w/40 part synthetic Castrol Magnatec . 1 litre? And if yes how much? Just need to top up my engine.
. Kindly reach us on this number 08030509254 or send email to paulyn.ejimonye@eternaplc.com
Thank you!
steveyen:
Pls do you have 10w/40 part synthetic Castrol Magnatec . 1 litre? And if yes how much? Just need to top up my engine.

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